Electronic Trade Test

A test to compare technical knowledge on a

common form to assist the hiring decision
process.

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Revision History:
Original Author Steve Dayne
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Date
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R01 24/01/2009 J Murphy

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Original available in hard
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Copyright Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd 2002

Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd
270 Gladstone Road
Dutton Park . QLD .
Australia
4102
Tel +61 7 3891 9772
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LIMITATIONS
This document is copyright and is provided solely for the use of the recipient. It is not
to be
copied in any way, nor its contents divulged to any third party, nor to be used as the
basis of a
tender or specification without the express written permission of Leica Geosystems
Pty Ltd. This
document discloses confidential intellectual property that belongs to Leica
Geosystems. This
document does not invest any rights to Leica Geosystems intellectual property in the
recipient.
Moreover the recipient is required not to disclose any of the intellectual property
contained in this
document to any other party unless authorised in writing by Leica Geosystems Pty
Ltd.

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Electronic Trade Test

Date: ___________________
Name: ________________________________________

Q1.

What is ohms law?

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Q2.
What is the value of the resistors below? What is the tolerance of the
resistors?

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Q3.

What is the value of R2?

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Q4.

Describe the main feature of the following circuit.

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Q5.

What is the time constant of the following circuit

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Q6.
You are given an electronic module of unknown condition. List the steps that
you would take to fix this module.
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Q7.

What are the devices below? Write a truth table for each.

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Q8.

What is common mode rejection? Describe an application for it.

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Q9.

What does BIOS stand for? What is the purpose of BIOS?

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Q10. In basic terms, what is GPS and how does it work?
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